Although a peace agreement been initiated before Ramadan, when the month ended, violence in Hanover Park escalated within a couple of days. In the space of one week, two men were fatally shot and five other people were injured, including an eight year old child, in what is believed to[…]
As the International Gun Destruction Day approaches, the recent conviction of ex-policeman Chris Prinsloo and the arrest of a 41-year-old Cape Town businessman, Irshaad Laher, has angered Cape Town residents who continue to be faced with rising gang violence. Both men were involved in the illegal sale of guns to[…]
In a spate of violent gang activity over the past week, residents of Elsies River were once again forced to flee for the lives, as one of their own was fatally gunned down. While the area has a functioning police station, community members are unsatisfied with the inadequate level of[…]
There can never be any justification for the killing of police officers‚ said Western Cape Community Safety MEC Dan Plato. Plato was reacting on Monday to the killing of a 40-year-old police constable and wounding of a warrant officer by gunmen armed with automatic weapons and explosives at a filling[…]
A video of two alleged criminals escaping from a police van in Pinetown went viral this week, with many questioning the whereabouts of the officers in charge. It is believed the two were arrested for being in possession of dangerous weapons. The video was taken by onlooker Mohammed Noushaad who[…]
While metal is considered a valuable natural resource, the increase of metal theft incidence costs municipalities millions to replace. The City of Cape Town is now clamping down on metal theft criminals and is asserting the strongest judicial mechanisms to ensure that suspects are not able to continue their activity.[…]
A raid at the Fezeka High School in Gugulethu on Thursday went embarrassingly wrong, with provincial education MEC Debbie Schafer questioning the police’s capability of dealing with search and seizure operations at schools. The operation was aimed at addressing the issues of drugs and gang violence highlighted by educators and[…]
Cape Town police said on Wednesday that it believed a syndicate was behind the smuggling of cocaine disguised as chocolates into the Mother City. This follows the arrest of four people at the Cape Town International Airport and the confiscation of drugs with an estimated street value of close to[…]
Security experts, police unions and some inside the SA Police Service are questioning a decision to drastically cut the police training period from 24 months to eight. The move, which police sources have said acting national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Kgomotso Phahlane will announce at a media briefing today, has surprised[…]
As gang violence rips through the Cape Flats, gang related activity within the so-called ‘townships’ appears to be unnoticed. Tuesday night’s killing spree in Nyanga, which resulted in the death of four individuals and injured three, awakened Cape Flats communities to the realities of life within the townships of the[…]
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